Lake Oswego, OR
Appeals Lawyer at Lake Oswego, OR
Practice Areas: Appeals, Child Abuse ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Success - reversal of trial court dismissal
Created new law on the application of delayed discovery to Oregon Tort Claims Act cases. Allowed adults to sue for sexual battery that occurred when they were young boys, decades after the abuse.
OUTCOME: Mandamus denied, but only after the County cancelled the public bond sale
Mandamus action to halt sale of $20,000,000 of "full faith and credit obligations," which were thinly disguised bonds. Because bond issuance needs to be voted upon by the People, and there had been no ... vote, the citizen I represented retained me to halt the sale of these bonds. We succeeded in obtaining a stay at the supreme court stopping the County from issuing the bonds.
OUTCOME: Eventual setlement after successful summary judgment defense
Successfully resisted motion to dismiss based on the running of Idaho's statute of limitations for child abuse that occurred in part in Oregon. The court applied Oregon law to the Oregon abuse, keepin ... g the case viable. Further established that Idaho fraud law permitted bringing suit against the Boy Scouts for failing to disclose the history of abuse in Scouting.
OUTCOME: Successful on appeal reversing dismissal, again on apeal on the merits.
Mandamus action by citizens against the governor for signing casino compacts, dismissed at the trial court for failure to join Native American Tribes. Created new law on the availability of mandamus a ... ctions in cases where an adverse party controls declaratory judgment jurisdiction.
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